Fief - Law Dictionary Search Results
Hawberk, or Hawbert
of mail, with which he was to be ready when called upon. See 13 Edw. 1, c. 6; FIEF D'HAUBERT
Feoffee
Feoffee, one enfeoffed or put in possession. Means transferee an estate in fee simple. The recipient of a fief. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 634.
Enfeoff
To give a feud or right in land to to invest with a fief or fee to invest any one with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment
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Catalla
was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud.
Benefice
a kindness], an ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C.
Feudatory
who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service the tenant of a feud or fief
cestui que use
cestui que use [Anglo-French, the person for whose use (a fief is granted)] : the beneficiary of a use
feudal
Of or pertaining to feuds fiefs or fees as feudal rights or services feudal tenures
Knight banneret
A knight who carried a banner who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor and who was obliged to serve in war with a
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